DoG, HC - CUNY

Executive Assistant to Dean, Hunter College School of Social Work
Adjunct Lecturer, Geography, Hunter College School of Arts and Sciences
Email: agrande@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-452-7011
Fax: 212-452-7150
Office: Room 535, School of Social Work, 129 East 79th Street

Mailing Address:
School of Social Work
129 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10021

Biography:

Mr. Anthony F. Grande is the chief administrative officer of the School of Social Work at Hunter College-CUNY. He has an MSEd degree in Higher Education Administration from the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College of CUNY and an MA in Geography from The Catholic University of America. Holding the rank of Higher Education Associate (HEO series), his functional job description is the executive assistant to the Dean and direct of financial management for the School of Social Work. He is also an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Geography of the Hunter College School of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Grande received his B.A. in geography from Hunter College in 1969. After a period of active duty as a member of the New York Army National Guard (NYANG), he attended The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. on a full teaching scholarship and received an M.A. in Geography in 1973. While finishing his master's thesis, "An Analysis of the Movement of the Business District of Port Washington, NY," he began working for Columbia University Press. As an associate editor in the Regional Studies Department of The New Columbia Encyclopedia, he was responsible for all "geography" and "geographers" articles. This included fact-checking and updating existing articles, researching and writing new entries, as well as coordinating a score of consultants and researchers. As a member of the NYANG, he achieved the rank of sergeant and the positions of Platoon Leader and Operations Assistant in the S-3 section of Battalion Headquarters of the 106th Infantry where his geographical background was utilized in the planning of training exercises.

In 1974 Mr. Grande was selected for a position created by the Dean of the former Hunter College Division of Sciences and Mathematics to manage the then Department of Geology and Geography. He became a HEO in 1983 when his position was upgraded after the establishment of the Geography Master of Arts program. Between 1987 and 2004 he coordinated the annual Geography Awareness Week activities at Hunter College and authored and edited numerous geography awareness week pamphlets that are distributed around the college. He was the faculty advisor to GeoNews, the Department's student-run newsletter, from 1989-2005. In November 2005 he was presented with the Anastasia van Burkalow Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of his years of service to the Department of Geography.

In March 2005 he was selected to fill the opening in the Office of the Dean of the School of Social Work as Assistant to Dean and Director of Financial Management. He is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the School, including budgeting, scheduling, personnel actions, students’ problems, record keeping and being a liaison with other college and university officials.

Mr. Grande has been an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College since 1976. He regularly teaches a section of introductory geography and the Geography of New York State, a subject in which he has special interest. He was a co-principal investigator on the New York State textbook and atlas project, which was supported by two Hunter College Presidential Incentive and Teaching Grant awards. Over the years he has done freelance research for several publishers and has reviewed geography textbook manuscripts. He is a charter member of the Hunter College Theta Pi Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the national geography honor society.

Mr. Grande is an active member of the Hunter College community. He received a Presidential Staff Development Award while pursuing the MSEd degree in Higher Education Administration (1997-1999). He is one of the original members of the Hunter College HEO Forum, a professional organization of Hunter College administrators of in the HEO series. Repeatedly, he has been an elected member of the Forum's Steering Committee, serving two terms as its Vice-Chair (2001-2003) and two terms as its Chair (2003-2005). He was the first HEO from an academic department to be appointed by the President to sit on the college's HEO Screening Committee (1998-2000). He has served on numerous college-wide committees, including search committees for Provost, Vice President of Administration, Dean of Diversity, and Associate Director of Human Resources, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for the Hunter College Middle States Association Recertification and the Advisory Committee for the Reorganization of the School of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he chairs the Hunter College HEO Labor-Management Committee.

Education:

MSEd 1999 School of Public Affairs at Baruch College , CUNY, Higher Education Administration

MA 1973

Catholic University of America, Geography

BA 1969 Hunter College, CUNY, Geography

Interests:

general geography, regional geography of New York State, geographic education

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